The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Album: Wind In The Trees
The tree matter came down in the recent wind- and rainstorms, no doubt, and upon a ChronicleWatch inspection, appears to consist of bark, leaves, branches and dirt that sloughed off the trees and hillsides in the storms. The detritus is no big deal ... Reading and paraphrasing from the journal, she continued: “The rain continues with tremendous gusts of wind, violent wind, trees falling in every direction, whirlwinds with gusts of hail and thunder. This kind of weather lasted all day. It ... A lot of that has to do with how quickly the temperatures are dropping, if they are dropping, what the humidity is and if there is any wind," said Mark McKinnon of the DOT. Any ice would likely form first on trees and power lines before hitting the ... They took turns at the scope, watching the pine trees. They both backed off when the wind made watching futile. Mr. Turner pointed toward the center of the pond at a half dozen ducks that were diving for fish. "Those mergansers are beautiful," Mr ... Lights and tinsel have been removed and now Christmas trees line the streets in Burlington. They are leftovers from the holiday season, but not waste. Many used Christmas trees wind up at the McNeil Generating Station in Burlington. A giant chipper ... All objects, such as trees and buildings, create wind turbulence. The turbine's height and placement will depend on where it can obtain air. Since the turbine will in all probability be below regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration, it will ... A gorgeous 100-year old healthy tree was uprooted by the force of the wind. I had no idea all the trees came down. They were all piled on top of each other. We have nothing now but bushes." The debris was so heavy that both Wade and her husband Tim ... We had hoped for visions of winter trees dusted with snow, not a tussle with rain, wind and umbrellas. Though disappointed, we stuck with plans to hike through the arboretum to Foster Island. There are about four miles of trails, but in winter these ... One irony of the findings is that the trees have developed their mutualistic relationship with the ants to protect themselves against plant-eating mammals -- and yet because of that relationship, the trees wind up actually needing the mammals. "If you ... If you have got wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph, it does tend to blow trees over," meteorologist, David Sweet said. Sweet also claimed that strong winds Wednesday evening could cause large trucks on the interstate to run off the road. No crashes have ...
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